Humidor.



M MAYER.

HUMIDOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 14,-1913.

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Abbast' iw inventor:

8 g fs M Wis Mayer" MORRIS MAYER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HUMIID OR.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented Apr. 21, 1 914.

Application filed July 14, 1913. Seria1No.1778,939.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS MArnn, a citi-; .zen of the United States of America, and

resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Humidors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being-had to the ac' companying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relatesto a humidorfor holding a box of cigars, the humidor being one more particularly intended for use by traveling men, and having for its object to so construct a humidor'tlzat a cigar box therein and the internal parts of the humidor will be held in fixed positions, notwithstanding shaking to'which the humidor may be -sub j ected when being carried in traveling cases.

Figure I is a top or plan view of my humidor, with the lid open and partly broken away. 'Fig. II is a vertical longituQ dinal section through the humidor, with the lid closed and a cigar box confined therein. Fig. III is a vertical cross section through the humidor, with the lid closed, and a cigar box'therein.

The'body A of my humidor and the lid B are preferably made ofsheet metal, but any other suitable material may be used for their production, it being desirable that the material should be of light weight and thin, so that the humidor will he unburdensome to carry, and unbulky.

A moistener pad compartment for holding a moistener pad C is formed within the humidor by a pair of spaced walls 1, extending vertically from the bottom of the body A, between which the pad C is confined, the walls 1 being preferably provided with perforations 2, permitting moist-ure to pass laterally through said walls beneath a cigar box thereabove, in addition to rising from the moistener pad. The moistener pad is held in its compartment by a retainer rod 3, one end of w'mcrr is loosely pivoted to a hinge ear 4, attached to one of the pad compartment walls 1. The retainer rod 3 is provided at its free end with a finger 5, which engages a perforated spring catch 6, secured to the second pad compartment wall.

7 designates posts secured to the bottom of the humidor body near the ends of the humidor, and extending upwardly therefrom to a plane higher than that occupied by the top edges of the pad compartment walls 1, these posts having points 8 at their upper ends adapted to be embeddedin' the bottom of a cigar box placed in the humidor. To limit the entrance of the points of the posts 7 into the bottom of the'cigar box, so that they may not pass therethrough to the injury of cigars in the box, I provide box sup-portv ing posts 9 attached to the pad compartment walls 1, these supporting posts being of slightly less height than the pointed posts 7 which, by their entrance into the bottom of the cigar box, serve to preterit-lateral .1i1ovement of the box relative to the walls of the humidor body A. The posts 9' are also of service in supporting a cigar box so that it is spaced from the m'oistener pad aud t-he pad compartment walls to permit circulation of air between said pad and its compartment, walls, and prevent the box from becoming wet, as distinguished from becoming moistened by vapor rising from the moistener pad. e

A cigar box, when placed in my humidor, is seatedupon the posts 9 and 7 to be supported and held from movement in the manner described, andv to hold the cigar box firmly seated on said posts, I provide a pressure spring 10, attached to the lid of the humidor and seating upon the lid of the cigar box when the hnmidor lid is closed. The spring 10 is preferably of double arm form, as shown, and extends longitudinally of the humido'r, so that its arms will exert downward pressure at opposite sides of the longitudinal center of the cigar box, with the result of causing the points of the post 7 at each end of the humidor to be retained in the bottom of. the cigar box. A suitable catch Z) is carried by the lid B, for engagement with the body of the humidor to hold the lid closed.

It is sometimes desirable to admi'tinore -moistnre into a cigar box'than will pene- I, therefore, 'p-rovide my humidor with 10 which amolstener pad is held,- cigar box 5 ,1 0211 11 Patentnigy be ebtained mi five cents each, by addressin a .spring earried by said 1idi r upon a cigar box seated upon I hilmidor hy a chain 2, oriht he1 suitebi-e flexispaced walls; ible connection, which is of suificientlength edalp'ted tobea to allow the separating block tohe apphed said supporting posts, andpointed posts 7 the .humidor.

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